Listen: Beck's "Harry Partch" Song

Ten-and-a-half minutes of pure insanity.

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We're not exactly sure how much a recent Radiohead diss by the Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger inspired Beck to release a 10-minute-plus tribute to experimental composer Harry Partch, but we're glad this thing exists. And it's up on Beck's site now. (Read about the convoluted quasi-beef here.)

Veering from hip-hop to country to psych to R&B, the brand new song is a one-stop-shop that covers Beck's entire career. (And, considering its intense arrangement, it's also one of the most Fiery Furnaces-y tunes Beck's ever made, in a weird way.)

According to Beck's site, the track is "a tribute to the composer and his desire to make the body and music unified into what he termed 'Corporeality.' The song employs Partch's 43 tone scale, which expands conventional tonality into a broader variation of frequencies and resonances." Why not?! (Also: That brief beat at the 7:27 mark is something fierce.)